Cruelty. I was gonna make a comment about Tories, because they'd do this, but it's NYC.

America!

That little x seems to get smaller every time

Upvote just for the title!

So true!

Pinterest is a cesspool. I found some of my facebook photos had been uploaded on pinterest. A girl (wannabe maker/influencer/scammer) reuploaded them with her watermark and used them as example of her creations. Had to subscribe to the website to report the images, and after weeks of waiting... nothing happened. Zero answers, support or even an automated mail. In the meanwhile those images were stolen by others and popped around for a while on other websites, mostly on ads of promoting scams. Stopped uploading my work anywhere.

Copyright laws make this illegal, surely?

This is entrapment for introverts!

I just can't anymore. Smh 🤦‍♀️

That is so sh*tty!

Well here’s a company that cares FA about both its customers and the environment.

Wow, that´s low!

By that logic, pretty much anything, can be something else.

False advertising.

No. They. Didn’t.

Similar to the lowfigirl channel, had the rights to the music on the channel and was overnight deleted on false copyright claims.

Just hold up the queue on purpose till the ad finishes, so you can choose what you want!

Customer: it's a bigger bag with more chips. Company: no no, it's just a bigger bag

Also false advertising

That's how my heart feels when I hear anything "Disney"

Oh that's messed up

Jeff Bezos contaminates life in so many special little ways

One of the worst things about this is that the adapters I've found to be practically disposable. I've been through maybe 20 of them, tried every price range, and they all break within a month or so. Such a racket.

Not cool

“Binder sold separately!”

Wow, I thought it was bad when we had to spend $200 for an actual book that we used for like 3 months, but this is on a whole other level. This is the American college system now, focused only on profit and not on education.

Academic books have always been a scam.

Yup. Really destroys the book. Hope you don't lose any pages. Also has little resale value.

College is a scam.

I bet the questionnaire and answer also sold separately.

Doesn’t justify the cost, but the reason they do that is supposedly so you don’t have to carry around the whole book all the time, just the sections you need any given week.

Bound copy is even MORE! Most of us have switched to openstax...

Could have printed it out and got your own binder for a lot less.

Textbooks are a racket. Always have been.

Textbooks are such a money hustle it’s mind numbing

One of my psychology textbooks was like this. Most annoying part was, the college bookstore didn't even sell the binder. I had to go to office max to get it.

Where does it end?! It just seems to get worse, all the deceit!

The textbook industry is such blatant extortion, I’m genuinely shocked as to how it’s still legal to charge hundreds of dollars for this s**t

Reminds me of the classic "also your textbook was written by your professor, so you can only buy it from our bookstore-"

My daughter starts college next week. Had to buy a $100 windows 96 book that turns out to be a 1 year electronic version

Thankfully I have never heard of this happening in Germany. Two of my Profs sold their script in a properly bound booklet for 8 and 10 Euro respectively, but you technically wouldn't need those if you pay attention during lectures. Most scripts are distributed as stack of papers by the faculty FOR FREE (only to students of course), or online resources that you could access through the university login for free.

USA!!

can you not get a .99cent 3-ring binder to put it in? I would if it would fit...I know it's the principle of the thing, but maybe that would work

This is why students are renting books now.

At least you have something solid. A guy I worked with had to buy all electronic books that just went away after the class. $125 for nothing. College loans aren’t the only scam.

That's so when you try to toss it, no one gets hurt.

Bet you one of the authors was teaching the class.

Whaaaat?

Inflation.

Buy the online one..then print it out like my husband did.. yes he is still alive, but he walks funny